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tween the hind limbs. The band on the neck is darkest. The edges of all are 

 darker and more irregularly undulating in front than behind ; a yellow black 

 edged band passes from the nostril to the eye, slightly continuing behind, 

 the lower black margin is the more distinct one and continues through the 

 ear to the cross band on the neck, with the anterior black margin of which 

 it is confluent ; upper half of orbit and some spots below eye yellow ; head 

 pale, uniform ; tubercles on back yellowish, those on the edges of all the 

 blackish bands and at the sides of the belly more distinctly so, brightest on 

 neck ; limbs unspotted ; below yellowish, all scales minutely punctated. 

 In spirit the whole of the yellow coloration has turned pure white and the 

 dark bands are now white edged. 



2. H. maculatus, D. and B. 



(Giinther, I. K,., p. 107. — Stoliczka in J. A. S. B., vol. xxxix, p. 164, and Blanford, 

 ibidem, p. 361. 



3. H. Pieejesi, Kelaart, ( = H. SyJcesi, Grunther, I. R., p. 108). 



It is, I think, clear that Dum. and Bibron, when describing their S. 

 maculatus, had under examination the two forms which Grunther separated, 

 and for one of which (considered as the young by D. and B.) he retained 

 Dum. and Bibron's name. The two forms are, no doubt, extremely closely 

 allied, and it has yet to be satisfactorily proved, whether IT. J?ieresi should 

 more appropriately be considered as a large local variety of maculatus, or as a 

 distinct species, but, I believe, the view taken by Kelaart and Griinther, and 

 first of all by Gray, is the correct one. It is certain that maculatus, as restricted 

 by Griinther, never appears to attain on the continent of India and Burma a 

 larger size than 5\ inches, and this measurement was observed only in two 

 cases among about 200 specimens from South India, Central India, N. W. 

 Provinces, the Sub Himalayan hills, and almost all parts of Bengal, Burma and 

 the Andamans. The usual size is 4 or 4-| inches. 



In all these specimens the head and body is brown spotted, the 

 spots on the latter have a tendency rather to arrange themselves in 

 longitudinal than in cross series ; in the three median rows the spots are 

 larger and more distinct than at the sides, where they generally become 

 rather confluent. The brown spots are equally distinct, or equally indis- 

 tinct, in males and females, the variations apparently depending upon the 

 seclusion of the locality in which the lizards five. However, I have repeatedly 

 observed, that in specimens which had the tail reproduced, the brown spots do 

 not retain the same distinctness which they had before. South Indian speci- 

 mens are generally of dark hue, and often have some of the enlarged tubercles 

 white. Young specimens are always dark brown, with still darker spots, 

 while the majority of the enlarged tubercles is purely white. 



As regards structure I find the enlarged tubercles slightly vary. They are 

 always well marked, along the back distinctly trihedral, on the sides often more 



